Hi James,
Funny project ! Many wives is not a problem but brothers marrying with sisters (brrrr) is not supported thought I saw it too on Egyptian Pharaon dynasty. BTW, for representation reason my current graphical algorithm has some limitations. The most important is that it could represent only parents with blood relationship (ascendant or descendant) from the root person (the one with the large border). To be honest, during the development, I was very surprised by the complexity of drawing a family tree :-) Lionel. De : James Simmons [mailto:nices...@gmail.com] Envoyé : jeudi 29 décembre 2011 22:26 À : Lionel Laské Cc : sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Objet : Re: [Sugar-devel] New genealogic activity for Sugar Lionel, I'm involved in transcribing a book for Project Gutenberg that has family trees going back millions of years: http://www.archive.org/stream/studyofbhagavata00benaiala#page/48/mode/2up I'm doing them entirely using ASCII-art, supplemented with page images. Some of these charts would stress test your Activity. You have gods with many wives, brothers marrying sisters, and other strange possibilities. James Simmons 2011/12/29 Lionel Laské <lio...@olpc-france.org> @Walter and @Gonzalo, thank for your encouragement ! > Family tree construction is a fairly common project in some school settings (along with other family history projects, e.g. interview your grandparents >about what life was like when they were your age, etc.) so I think that this is a wonderful idea for a Sugar Activity. @Chris, youre right. Indeed, the idea of this activity come from Bastien Guerry when it worked with teachers to prepare the first Haïti deployment. > I may take a shot at entering my own family geneology (which has been traced back to the mid-1600's on my mother's side.) as a test case :-) Cant wait to see that :-) In my initial brainstorm I thought to support the standard GEDCOM format. However, I want to keep the activity very simple, not to compete with existing genealogic software. > One small note about the upload to ASLO, I think something was not configured correctly. Youre right, I miss something. Thanks @Gonzalo to fix it. > As you seek to refine Roots in later versions, I would very much appreciate it if you would consider working on internationalization Its already the case. The activity is wrote in English but have already a localization file in French. So, there is a POT file and a first fr.po file here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/trees/master/po One more thing: its the first activity I develop with Python/PyGTK and I must say that its really a pleasure to do it. Its great to see how most things are easy to do in Sugar and how we could benefit from the work done on existing activity (Labyrinth, A toi de jouer, Paint, Memory for me - to name a few). Note also than Im a Windows developer. So I wrote a Sugar dummy library to allow developing/debugging the activity on PyGTK Windows (without Sugar ). Its a very partial work but It could interest some other Windows developers (http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/blobs/master/sugardummy.py). Lionel. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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